Anyone who says this game is not pwnage is clearly retarded

Total Annihilation?

Total Anihilation: Kingdoms isn't it? It kinda rulez. Especially the kickass dragons muahahaha.

no man, the original total annihilation
arm vs. core
kingdoms wasn't nearly as good

Hmm ok, then i missed something. Lol.

TA is one of the greatest RTS ever made, you guys have missed out

TA was a great RTS game that was released slighty before Red Alert I believe. The problem is Red Alert was more publicised so TA did not get noticed on as large a scale as Red Alert was. TA is a good RTS game and many argue it is the best ever made.

ive never heard of it. prolly missed sth

It was an awesome game.

edit: it is an awesome game

i actually JUST finished playing some of it. lol, good game i must say. But, not THAT good....sorry

Man, Total A is the best RTS ever. I think it's still the only RTS where the units actually miss...

Although I don't own it anymore (my friend stole it) and I play Starcraft and Warcraft III a hell of a lot, I can still recognize that it is the pwnage.

i got kingdoms its pretty good

I got pwned in it quite some times.... my computer didn't really like TA at the time. I got about 0.5 frame a second.

But I played it on a friends pc once... and I realy liked it... But the TA time passed before I got a new PC., then there was already RA2

Never even heard of that game... I guess I'm not into RTSs enough.

Red Alert? That game is AWSIMO!!! I can't find my allied CD, but you know, fuck it. All I need is communism

I can't find Total A ANYWHERE, MAN! What the fuck!? People think it sucks 'cause it's old, that's 'cause they're n00bs. Me and my friend have to order it off Ebay. WHAT THE FUCK!!! If you can tell me where to get it, it'd be much abliged.

If i feel like buying it off e-bay.

MR. CLINTON?!
MR.CLINTON!?!?!?!?
Oh, you can kiss the fattest part of my ass

TA is the pwnage!

Most versitile interface I've used in an RTS, though I havent played a lot.
Did anyone have the Core Contingency?
I loved the Vulcan Cannon (ARM) and what about that Buzzsaw! (CORE) talk about BOOM Headshot - takes a forest of fusions reactors to run them though.
Oh the commander unit was so cool too, and it was so cool how constructor units could repair anything, and the Commanders D-gun how cool was that?
I love this games, thanks to this post it's brought it all back.


BTW to all the RTS nuts, do the modern RTS's interface's have the same level of versitility?

SLoppige

The best RTS ever to be produced. If i had money, I would get the creators to contiue on making TA2, but i have no money...
The addon(non official) patches are hilarious. The missing was also a good factor in the game. Also a plasma cannon smaching a bunch of brawlers is funny. They think they are safe from artillary, but no. Get owned.
It was also one of the games where there was accutally an anti-super weapon. As in the anti-nuke unit. V useful.

one word.... godly... i loved that game.. i always thought it was funny wipinh out their base, except for their commander.. then sending about n amount of nukes onto his position and bombing his ass... its just so much fun!. lol.. also. the thrill of sending 35318320 troops upon his base is like.. better then crack.. hah, kidding.

TA has its ups and downs like most games. Up: It's easy to set up weapons of mass destruction and uber range that pwn you from across the map, before you can even see the bad guys.
Down: It's usually me getting pwned by my cousin. Damn him.

I loved playing this game, even though I totally sucked at it.

If you folks are interested, someone's remade Total Annihilation in an engine. It's still in beta, but you can find it at http://taspring.clan-sy.com/

New features include deformable terrain (making the minelayers somewhat useful) and there is online play, albiet it is a bit buggy.

There comes a time when old classics just need to be put to rest.

I love playing old classics since you know that they are they FOREVER! unlike the crap that is getting released these days...so many diff titles, so much crap to sift through.

TA IS FUCKIGN PWNAGE! almost as much as purepwnage, i loved the mass macroness of it. the nuke storms, the anti nuke storms, the retarded a.i, the endless rows of guardian defences, *sigh* good times, and pity i can't find the expansion pak anywhere, i saw a thing on it once, it was a gatling big bertha, FUCKING OWNAGE, wiped out the enemy base in a matter of seconds, only thing was, required almost 40 fusion power plants, the patch was also awesome, OMFG GIANT KBOT ARMIES! *drools* + da thousands upon thousands of custom made units, >.<. oh i've said too much. go research the game you nubs who dun know wat it is, you obviously had a deprived childhood and on the verge of committing suicide.

TA > All

Kthx.

and you noobs who think the vulcan/buzzsaw is a viable weapon in online play..well.....

you can never get it up. hell, a nuke is hard to get up when versing good players.

i haven't played much TA but i played some kingdoms and i must say that is an awsome game

kingdoms is the reason cavedog aint around anymore. It was just an ok game. cavedog needed a hit.

TA Kingdoms was total shit compared with the orgional. Ahh i rember with teh expansion there were over 150 units per side not including buildings. This is cause it had 2 levels of Kbots (infantry), 2 levels of Tanks, 2 levles of aircraft, 1 level of sea aircraft, 1 lvl of hovercraft, 2 levels of underwater buldings, 2 levels of sea units and many more. By levels i mean, you build a Tech Level 1 Kbot lab, there you can build 7 units, one of those is a builder unit, he can build different stuff to your start builder and one thing is a tech level 2 Kbot lab, and there you can build 10 totally different units and thier builder units can build more complex stuff. SO it mean it rock totally hardkore, i still play it over the LAN sometimes with friends

I still play it at LANs... Go Fido!!

Yo pro razer from msn gaming zone?, its me consumed i play there too, anyway yeah, u never manage to get vulcans up in online, plus its not just "macroness", when u actually get good at the game and stop playing ai's on easy u learn how much micromanagement is involved to win a game against a good player.

I got TA!!!! i got it free with my old old old old (windows 98 rofl, sold it now for liek £80 or sumthin, thats how shit it was) and i got really into it but could never figure out how to play on the net....it would never work..

TA is the shit, my friend and I just got done with a 4 hour game. 2 human vs. 4 AI ("Mostly Harmless" hard boost). Gotta love having 6 comps to handle AI duty and using the Units Compliation Pack. Greatest mod for TA ever.

TA is still the ONLY RTS that I play. Zero Hour is nice, but the games are too fast and there isn't enough room to grow. Also, there aren't many units, so its hard to specialize in defence or offence. If you guys know a way I could send TA pVp I would totally host it up. There is NO burn protection, I could send the TA folder in 1 file and the run CD in another.

2v4? sounds a bit easy for me....

lol 1(me) vs 9 with me starting with 200 and them starting with 10000 on gow is too easy for me

Lol not stock AI's silly. It's taken me a year to finally find an AI boost that is challenging.

which one?

Its called "Mostly Harmless Hard Boost". It's built into the Units Compilation Pack for TA (3rd party). Best unit/AI pack out there. The units actually go AROUND obstacles and they nuke you and send massive armies quite quickly. But still, there is a limit to how good an AI can get, and thats why it needs to be at LEAST 2 on 1 to make it "interesting".

linky?

those ai boosts change the game though, as in the unit stats and stuff.
and btw original TA with cc and 3.1 patch + official downloadable units = the best version of TA.

also, the pathfinding of the unit, as in its abillity to go round walls without micromanagement is pretty much entirely dependant on the speed/power of ur cpu, ta does not use the graphics card to enhance performance in any way.
in other words everything is rendered and sprites, models etc by the processor so u need a good processor to play ta with perfect pathfinding, at least a 2ghz i would say. pretty funny since it was designed when everyone had p133's and stuff lol.
its like that because he designed it so that there was a certain percentage of proccessing power diverted to path finding to prevent slowdowns when rendering stuff. so more units on the map=less pathfinding for each one.
not using the technical words i know so dont moan.

http://www.planetannihilation.com/taucp/main.htm

oh FUN!!

T.T

Im just totaly happy that there is a bunch of other people that knows of this RTS. First time I saw a pewee I was hooked. (yeas, pewee=crap infantery).

The name says it al, its total freaking anhilation! Them old fellas talking about Westwood vs Blizzard... omg... .. . WC3 = only play DotA, SC = rush maps weeeee, Total anhilation = pure fun whatever u do, never get tired of destroying endless of units and still got half the map to destroy

And now some news(well maybe news) 4 u people that realy like TA, there is comming a TA2 but its name will bee "suprem(e?) commander". Why it wont bee named total anhilation 2 is because I think it was Atari bought the rights 4 that name. There is werry little known about this "suprem commander" but it is comming. Or soo some kinda gamer magazine asured me and www.gamespot.com

I never played TA online... and it was a werry long time ago since I laned. Soo yeas, that makes me a newbie. (got both offical expansions)

Agge

There are things known about Supreme Commander. For one, the commander will be bigger, have an built in aircraft hanger, and have short range nuclear capabilities. Fun. oh, and a Battleship is 5+ screens big.

yes im looking forward to it too, comes out in 2006 (mind u that means more time for them to work on it )
Hopefully they wont listen to all the noobs on gas powered forus that pretty much want the computer to play for them, ie. get rid of the need for micro?!?!, thats what made ta so great!, all the hardcore TAers that still play the original ta need to make a big list with all the best things of ta and what made it so great and get it to chris taylor soon.

Omg, I just saw some pictures from it, fucking awesome!!! The scale is just O.O and like like like *drowls*

I sure hope there is a zoom button ^^

The only thing that can possibly go wrong in the making of "supreme commander" is that they put in some heroe crap shit fuck. On the other hand, ofcourse I still want the commander to have his "D-gun"... bwahahaha, always fun to drop my own commander in my friends base and D-gun his commander killing both commanders and his base

Alex.

bump simply because TA deserves it.

the countless hours of lan parties with friends playing TA... mmm...

do you guys use uberhack with TA?

love the game, first thing i posted when i joined this forum was how much i liked it,